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From Today's Los Angeles Times

Animal Ethics

The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure. In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? In my opinion, neither Harambe nor the child should ever have been at the zoo.

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Animal Ethics

First of all, I want to tell you how much I enjoy Animal Ethics. It’s a job-matching site for all jobs related to animals, like training, grooming, veterinary medicine, caretaking, zoo positions, and much, much more. If the majority of your blog readers are animal lovers like me, then I know they’d love my site.

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ZooBorns

Animal Ethics

At the risk of being a killjoy, let me say that there should ( morally ) be no zoos. Wild animals belong in the wild. Like humans, they have a right to liberty. Mark Spahn sent a link to this blog. They do not exist for our amusement, entertainment, or education.

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J. Baird Callicott on Wild Life

Animal Ethics

The land ethic, it should be emphasized, as Leopold has sketched it, provides for the rights of nonhuman natural beings to a share in the life processes of the biotic community. The conceptual foundation of such rights, however, is less conventional than natural, based upon, as one might say, evolutionary and ecological entitlement.

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J. Baird Callicott on Domesticity

Animal Ethics

One of the more distressing aspects of the animal liberation movement is the failure of almost all its exponents to draw a sharp distinction between the very different plights (and rights) of wild and domestic animals. But this distinction lies at the very center of the land ethic. Domestic animals are creations of man.